An excellent interview with Ubuntu Founder — Mark Shuttleworth, which offers an insight into the motivation behind funding Ubuntu, and his vision for the future.

Vim 7.4 was released. It is the first stable version of Vim to come out in 3 years, after Vim 7.3 was released in 2010.

Privacy:

Lavabit — a popular email service among privacy advocates — was shut down by its founder Ladar Levison, in retaliation to unjust interferance by the USA government.

In case you haven't heard about this already — those who don't have a Facebook profile, might still have one!! This article explains, how Facebook creates shadow profiles of the people who don't have a Facebook account. The *best* part is that you cannot do anything about it...